Press Release, 03.04.2018

Photo: Alexei Karnaukhov.

On Friday, 6 April, the first meeting of the commission for security and anti-corruption of the local Council of Deputies will be held in the Khamovniki district (Moscow). The key issues of the meeting are inspecting fire safety in the district after the tragedy in Kemerovo (when a fire in a shopping mall took lives of dozens of people, most of the victims were children), regulation of traffic in the area for the time of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia and the unsettled conflict of interests of the district head.

In August, the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Centre conducted an investigation into the municipal corruption in Khamovniki district. Yabloko lawyers found out that every second municipal contract goes to companies associated with the local branch of the progovernmental United Russia party. The main contractors were companies of the former head of the municipality, young activists of the United Russia party and the head of the local party organisation of United Russia. Alexei Karnaukhov, deputy head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Centre, believes that the head of the district Nina Gushchina has not settled a conflict of interests with these people.

The complete agenda can be found here.

“According to the law, if an official has a personal interest that can affect his impartiality, he must report a conflict of interest to the employer. In the case of  the head of Khamovniki, she signed contracts with her boss from the local United Russia organisation, but the conflict of interests was not solved,” Karnaukhov said.

The Anti-Corruption Commission includes deputies Ilya Azar, Nikolai Gospodarik and Anna Lukyanova. Alexei Karnaukhov, deputy head of Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre is chairman of the commission.

The meeting is open for the public.

The address: the building of the Khamovniki administration on Prechistenka, 14.

The meeting starts at 19:00.

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